Two years ago I got to go with Ezra on his field trip to NASA’s Ames Research Center, and this year I got to go with Finn. They have a great learning center there, and they’ve changed some things up in the last two years. There was a new flight landing simulator where the kids get to plan out flight paths and make adjustments to make sure planes land safely. They all seemed to enjoy it.
There was a movie about future space exploration that the kids seemed to enjoy. There’s also a good hands-on part with lots of spinny things.
And then this part where they’re trying to simulate how hard it is to land something somewhere when both parts are moving.
They also spent a little time in a simulated International Space Station doing experiments.
The only bummer about the changes was that they no longer have the model of Bruce’s project (LADEE). It’s been replaced with a poster placed in the stairwell with posters of other projects.
